Having just read Deborah Young's latest post about Planned Parenthood, I am reminded of how lonely it can be when amongst a crowd with different views. Although her writing was a little shrill, she didn't deviate much from any other conservatives' points of view on all services provided without charge to Americans. So I've resisted any kind of knee-jerk reaction I might have had to the assertions in the post, and have left her comment thread to others.
Instead, I have a question. Deborah is free to answer, but the question is addressed to any other OS blogger who happens to agree with Ms. Young's statement that Planned Parenthood should be privatized. I'm trying very hard to forget the fact that she cited figures and sources in her essay that included this:
In A Social History of Birth Control in America by Linda Gordon, she is famously quoted as saying, "We don't want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Sadly, Sangers (sic) vision isn't too far off course in 2011.
According to the Pro-life Action League website, abortions by race of the mother are broken down:
· White 40%
· Black 31.7% however, they are only 12.9% of the U.S. population.
· Hispanic 20.1%
· Asian/Pacific Islander 6.4%
· Native American 0.9%
So 12% of the population is having 31% of the abortions. This has not gone unnoticed in the Black community.
"Let's be clear. Funding Planned Parenthood with U.S. taxpayer dollars is equivalent to justifying the use of tax dollars to help the Ku Klux Klan buy rope so they can secure their victims in the backs of their wagons," writes Walter Hoye of the Issues4Life Foundation in 2011.
As I said, I will be kind.
But here's the question: For the millions of women who
1) don't have health care insurance (and won't if the Republicans get their way) AND
2) don't have jobs and therefore cannot afford to PAY the fees that a privatized Planned Parenthood would be compelled to charge for their services,
how do you propose the babies that are born from unintended pregnancies be cared for?
Don't say adoption. That's not going to work, because before they are adopted, they'll have to be carried to term and delivered. How does that work without access to healthcare?
Don't say public aid. Even though that would be handled on a state level, you won't rest until all social welfare is axed.
As Deborah was quick to point out, many abortions are currently sought by African American women, so we know each baby they are forced to carry to term without access to healthcare and without access to information about legal abortion, now that you have succeeded in ending the funding, is going to be at least half black.
Since so many American families who are open to adopting children who are of a different race tend to go outside the U.S. to adopt them, American children who are all or partially black land on that well-known Difficult to Adopt list. What happens to them? Are there enough African Americans in the country who are qualifed and financially capable of adopting to absorb all those babies? I seriously doubt it. I have no reason to believe the Latino and Native American babies will fare any better.
So which is worse, conservatives? Terminating a pregnancy in the earlier weeks or allowing the child to be born and killing it via neglect, starvation, drug addiction, child prostitution, and poverty-induced violence?
Instead, I have a question. Deborah is free to answer, but the question is addressed to any other OS blogger who happens to agree with Ms. Young's statement that Planned Parenthood should be privatized. I'm trying very hard to forget the fact that she cited figures and sources in her essay that included this:
In A Social History of Birth Control in America by Linda Gordon, she is famously quoted as saying, "We don't want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Sadly, Sangers (sic) vision isn't too far off course in 2011.
According to the Pro-life Action League website, abortions by race of the mother are broken down:
· White 40%
· Black 31.7% however, they are only 12.9% of the U.S. population.
· Hispanic 20.1%
· Asian/Pacific Islander 6.4%
· Native American 0.9%
So 12% of the population is having 31% of the abortions. This has not gone unnoticed in the Black community.
"Let's be clear. Funding Planned Parenthood with U.S. taxpayer dollars is equivalent to justifying the use of tax dollars to help the Ku Klux Klan buy rope so they can secure their victims in the backs of their wagons," writes Walter Hoye of the Issues4Life Foundation in 2011.
As I said, I will be kind.
But here's the question: For the millions of women who
1) don't have health care insurance (and won't if the Republicans get their way) AND
2) don't have jobs and therefore cannot afford to PAY the fees that a privatized Planned Parenthood would be compelled to charge for their services,
how do you propose the babies that are born from unintended pregnancies be cared for?
Don't say adoption. That's not going to work, because before they are adopted, they'll have to be carried to term and delivered. How does that work without access to healthcare?
Don't say public aid. Even though that would be handled on a state level, you won't rest until all social welfare is axed.
As Deborah was quick to point out, many abortions are currently sought by African American women, so we know each baby they are forced to carry to term without access to healthcare and without access to information about legal abortion, now that you have succeeded in ending the funding, is going to be at least half black.
Since so many American families who are open to adopting children who are of a different race tend to go outside the U.S. to adopt them, American children who are all or partially black land on that well-known Difficult to Adopt list. What happens to them? Are there enough African Americans in the country who are qualifed and financially capable of adopting to absorb all those babies? I seriously doubt it. I have no reason to believe the Latino and Native American babies will fare any better.
So which is worse, conservatives? Terminating a pregnancy in the earlier weeks or allowing the child to be born and killing it via neglect, starvation, drug addiction, child prostitution, and poverty-induced violence?
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